Community structure, individual participation and the social construction of merit

IFIP International Federation for Information Processing

Volumn 234, Issue , 2007, Pages 161-172

  Studer, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Collective self esteem; Community of practice; Meritocracy; Open source; Social network analysis; Social structure

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE SELF-ESTEEM; COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE; MERITOCRACY; OPEN SOURCES; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547954777     PISSN: 15715736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-72486-7_13     Document Type: Article

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